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c. LIBURDICK WAGE PAYING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1922 3 SheetS Sheet 2 6 8 3 l 1 K m D R u B L c Oct. 28 1924i.

WAGE PAYING MACHINE 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Feb. 18, 1922 5s Fig.13.

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Patented Get. 28, 1924.

MNETE. STATES FFEFCE.

WAGE-PAYING amour-NE.

Application filed February 18, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES LAURENCE Bonnie-K, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wage-Paying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines in which coins or other'forms or money are placed and from which they are delivered in definite quantities by means of keys or pressure buttons arranged on keyboard. In connection with this is reCOICling mechanism which indicates the sums of money delivered.

The invention consists in a new type of machine adapted to deal simultaneously with paper money and coins so that it can be used for collecting money in amounts such as re quired for the payment of wages to workmen and others. I

To secure compactness in the machine I provide a central delivery money chute with coin receptacles arrangedon each side. The delivery chute can be arranged to deliver on either side of the machine as required. I

My invention will be explained in detail in the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are more or less in diagrammatic form and of which Figure l is a plan view of a wage paying machine constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional side View thereof.

Figure 3 is a detail side view, corresponding to part of Figure 2, illustrating a modified arrangement.

Figures 4 to 7 are detail views hereinafter referred to.

Figures 8 to 11 are detail views of the machine operating means shown inFigures l and 2.

Figures 12 and 13 are views of a. key or push button shown in Figures 8 to 11, drawn to a larger scale.

Figure 14 shows examples of records made by printing devices comprised in the machine.

In a suitable framework and casing I provide openings with gates for receiving coin tubes 1, 1 which may be of varying sizes for different denominations of coins, and also for receiving bars 2, 2 provided with spring clips 2, 2 constructed to hold paper money. The money is ejected into a central'inclined chute 3 from which it is removed at the lower end; this chute may be so arranged as to deliver from openings at either side of the Serial No. 537,577.

at a time, but may be arranged to eject more than one. With paper money, as the spacing is defiinite, I am able to deliver one or more as required with each ejector.

The ejectors are operated by keys 4, 4 so arranged on a key board that one key may be connected with several ejectors which will deliver coins or paper money to the value indicated by the particular key. mach key also connects with, and will operate a type bar 9, 9 having a numeral corresponding to the money value, andthis particular bar will be sopositioned that the type thereon will fall in the particular column on the typed; sheet or paper strip (see Figurelt) which will indicate the total value of the money delivered, thus tens of dollars ,will

come at the left hand end of the printedlinein the tens of dollars column, dollars less than ten in the dollars column, followedby dimes-and cents in their respective columns. It will be seen that by this arrangement several typing bars can be operated simultaneously, i. e., all of those which fall in different columns.

In the machine illustrated keys are provided each to eject from one coin tube or clip, or a number of coin tubes or clips, simultaneously, from one to nine cents,-from one to nine dimes, from one to nine dollars and from one to three eagles, either in coin or in paper money. Each of the groups of keys for ejecting'c'ent's, dimes and dollars, respectively,--has-an associated key marked 0 which is not connected to anymoney ejecting device but is arranged to operate a type bar only, set to strike on the appropriate part of the typed record sheet. Supplementary keys may be added, as for instance there may be an additional key for thirty cents to pay out a twenty-five cent piece anda five cent piece from supplementary coin tubes whilst a suppleme'ntary typing bar records a figure 3 in the dimes column.

Each key is connected with a vertical shaft or rod 5, 5 which is provided with arms 6, 6 (Figs. 2 and 9)' from which'wires or bars 6 run to similar arms 7, 7 of another set of vertical shafts 8, 8 which operate the ejectors. ires 6* also run from similar arms on the shafts 5, 5 to hell crank arms- 13, 13through which motion is communicated to the typing bars 9, 9.

Only a few wires a 6 are indicated in Figure 1, for the sake of clearness.

1 provide a consecutive number printing element to which is of the form used by printers and so well known as to need no de scription, which be operated b a spring supported push button, such as 11 or other means whereby each delivery from the ma chine may be numbered to conform to numbers on wages sheet or other record.

The return of this printing element to normal will advance the type bar roller 42 over which the paper is carried from a supply roll 1 1-; rollers 4&5, 25 keep the paper in contact with the roller 12 and secure the feed forward. This forward feed of the paper is secured by mounting a ratchet wheel 16 on the shaft of the roller 12, which is ad vanced by a ratchet pawl 17 controlled by the number printing element 40 and operated by the spring which lifts the same. 1 preferably engage two teeth at each normal operation, but if it is desired to supplement the money paid against any particular wage with delivery of additional money from the machine the paper can be advanced one half of the normal by means of a spring actuated rod 19 and this additional sum will be typed. in between the normal spacing, but without operating the numbering element.

A rotary movement is given to the shafts or rods 5, 5 either by means of a direct cam action illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 or by a crank arm and connecting device shown in Figures 8 to 13 inclusive. 1n the direct method of operation, the shaft of the finger button is provided with a cross bar or arm 12 with rollers which on being depressed travels through a straight groove in a collar 10 secured to the casing. Within this collar is a cylindrical shaped extension of the shaft 5 having sp :al grooves 5, 5 on either side through which the arms with rollers travel. it will be at once seen that depressing the button will give a rotary movement to the shafts 5, 5. A spring returns the button ;0 normal.

1. F gures 2, and 8 to 13 inclusive 1 show a method of operating the ejectors, and typinp' mechanism by a crank arm or lever. In odificaticn the keys selected are de- 1 and lock the shafts, 5, 5 to correcylindrical pieces 52 which are to a horizontal bar provided with dle 51 and which when rotated through lent of circle will operate the maspon t li like :l

.8. a carrying this out each key f is pro- I c l with a flattened wedge shaped shank pressed upwardly by a spring FF. The end of the shaft 5 is slightly enlarges, and cut ur forked to receive this flattened shank. ounted on the shaft is a cylindrical piece a2 supported by a collar 53.

The piece 52 is also cut or forked to receive the wedge shaped shank 4; so that when the finger button is depressed the shaft 5 and the piece 52 will be locked together. An arm 52 is connected with an arm 50 on the bar 50 by a rod 56 so that movement of the shaft 50 will be communicated to all of the shafts 5, 5 which have been locked by the depressed keys.

1 provide means for securing the keys when depressed and releasing them after each operation. In doing this 1 provide a spring 57 mounted on the piece 52, and bearing against a projection on the collar 53 so as normally to give a slight twist to the piece 52 in the direction in which it moves in operation, and by making inclined faces on 0pposite sides of the wedge shaped shank (see Figures 11 and 12) and corresponding receiving projection on the inner faces of the cut in the piece 52 (see Figure 13) a locking tendency will result. In order that the shank of the key may be able to rotate when depressed, I cut away parts to form a neck in the upper part; as soon therefore as it has been depressed. bringing the cut-away part below the casing, it will swing slightly and be retained. As the movement of the piece 52 to effect the operations of ejecting and printing, is in the same direction as the thrust of the spring 57, the wedge shaped shank will remain below the casing until the return movement when a supplemental pressure against the spring 5'? by the collar 52 will bring the wedge shape shank in alignment once more with the opening in the casing, and the spring will return it to normal.

Motion communicated through the shafts 5 and 8 operates arms 14, lt which in the case of the coin element advances a tongue or ejector bar 16 which will displace the topmost coin from a column of coins 17; springs 8, 8 return the rods 8 and ejectors to normal. The forked arms 14, in the case of the coin ejectors, are bent upward to pass through the casing as shown in Fig. 2.

The coin tubes 1, 1 are held in place in the framework a gate 18 provided with spring latch 19. The coins are thrust upwards against the gate by a spring 20 which supports a platform 21 mounted on a tubular piece 22 which telescopes with a similar piece 23 secured to the framework; signalling arm 22 carried with the piece 22 projects above the casing when the tube is nearly empty of coins. Since the weight of a pile of coins in coin tube is carried on a spring, by employing a suitably designed spring, when one coin is removed from the pile the diminished load on the spring will allow it to expand and raise the remaining coins a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the coin removed. The pressure of the uppermost coin against the gate 18 therefore remains constant and may be quite small 'whatever the number of the coins in the tube. A hinged piece 24 is so positioned in the gate that if there is no coin beneath it, it will drop down and intercept the ejector bar and the operator will be warned of the absence of the coin. Figure 4 shows this piece when not supported by a coin. The coin tubes 1 are separately removable so that-an empty tube can be replaced by a filled tube.

The ejector for the paper will be made sufficiently deep to eject one or more pieces of paper as may be required. It is operated by arms 14 similar to those for the coin. Provision is made for advancing the bar 2 upward after each ejecting operation. By one method shown in Figures 1 and2 the re turn movement of the ejector lifts the bar 2 as required. This is accomplished by pivoting an arm 35 in such manner that it will receive a thrust from a peg 36 mounted on the ejector; this movement will be communicated to the ratchet wheel 32 and the toothed wheel 31 through a spring pressed pawl 36 return movement of the wheels being prevented by a second spring pawl 37. When the bar containing the paper money is inserted in the machine it is necessary to disengage these pawls and this is done by a spring supported rod 38 with button and projecting arms 38 which engage with and depresses the two pawls.

By another method, shown in Figure 3, the lifting of the bar 2 is accomplished by a spiral spring 30 similar to a clock spring which is mounted in a casing 30 and rotates the shaft 31 of a toothed wheel 31 which engages with openings in the bar 2 (see Figure 7). Secured to the same shaft is a ratchet wheel 32 operated by a spring pawl 33, which is tripped on the return movement of the ejector and the bar 2 is lifted the requisite length for the number of sheets to be ejected. Pieces 34, 34 mounted on the gate 18 fall on the paper at the sides of the clips and operate in the same manner as the piece 24 of the coin chute, to prevent the movement of the ejector bar if no paper money is present to be ejected.

A central opening in the gate permits the bar 2 with projecting clips to pass through. The paper is ejected from the clips by providing a forked ejecting bar 28 which passing each side of the clips engages the paper projecting therefrom and delivers it to the chute 3, the bar is then brought up through the gate into position for the next operation.

I claim 1. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money and arranged in groups, ejectors arranged to disengage paper money from the clips of each group respectively, keys, rotary shafts associated with the said keys, means rendered operative by the depressions of the sa d keys for imparting a rotary movement to the corresponding shafts, and. means for operatively connecting the said shafts to corresponding ejectors.

2. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money and arranged in groups, ejectors arranged to disengage paper money from the clips of each group respectively, keys, rotary shafts operatively connected to corresponding ejectors respectively, cylindrical pieces rotatably mounted on the said shafts, a bar and handle arranged to rock the said cylindrical pieces simultaneously onthe shafts, and shanks carrying the said keys and arranged to couple the said cylindrical pieces to the corresponding shafts when the keys are depressed.

3. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money and arranged in groups, ejectors arranged to disengage paper money from the clips of each group respectively, keys, rotary shafts operatively connected to corresponding ejectors respectively, cylindrical pieces rotatably mounted on the said shafts, a bar and handle arranged to rock the said cylindrical pieces simultaneously on the shafts, shanks carrying the said keys arranged to couple the said cylindrical pieces to the corresponding shafts when the keys are depressed, and a resilient connection between each shaft and the cylindrical piece thereon arranged to impart a rotary movement to the corresponding key shank as the key is depressed and thereby to lock the key in the depressed position.

4. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money and arranged in groups, ejectors arranged to disengage paper money from the clips of each group respectively, keys, rotary shafts associated with the said keys, means for imparting a rotary movement to each shaft when the corresponding key is depressed, and means for locking each key separately in its depressed position.

5. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money and arranged in groups, ejectors arranged to disengage paper money from the clips of each group respectively, rotary shafts associated with the said ejectors, arms mounted on the shafts and connected to the ejectors, keys, shafts associated with said keys and rotatable individually when the corresponding key is depressed, and bars connecting the several shafts associated with the keys to corresponding shafts associated with the ejectors.

6. A money delivering machine comprising clips constructed to hold paper money, a bar supporting the said clips, an ejector for disengaging paper money from the said clips, a toothed wheel engaging the said bar, a pawl operated by movement of the ejector to advance the said bar and thereby bring each clip in turn into the path oi? the said ejector.

7. A money delivering machine comprisoiips constructed to hold separate items or? paper money, means for supporting the elips in groups, and means for imparting a step loy step movement to each group of clips as a Whole.

8. A money delivering machine comprisclips constructed to hold paper money, a bar supporting the said clips, an ejector ior disengaging paper money from the said eiips, and means for intermittently advancing the said in order to bring each clip in succession into the path of the said ejector.

9. A money delivering machine comprisin. 1,551.3,es6

ing clips constructed to hold paper money, a bar supporting the said clips, an ejector for disengaging paper money from the said clips, means for intermittently advancing said bar step by step, and means for preventing retrograde movement of the said bar.

10. A money delivering machine comprising clips and constructed to hold paper money a bar supporting the said clips ejettor for disengaging paper money from the said clips, a pawi operating to advance the said bar step by step, a pawl preventing retrograde movement of the said ha and means for rei'idering each pawl inoperative. CHARLES LAURENCE BURDICK.

Witnesses GEO Hannison, HERBERT A. Bnnsron. 

